On the day:
14/05/2012
On the way:
There are only three people on the bus.
Other than me. That's four people.
And some people who went upstairs. But I can't see them so they may or may not exist any longer. Do people who you don't know and will never see again (or be aware that you're seeing again) continue to exist? Why should the harem of the court of King Caractacus and all its attendants, all its Guildensterns and Rosenkrantzes, carry on once it has performed its essential function of passing by?
Once it has outlived its usefulness do its constituent atoms simply part company and return to the foundry where they can be formed into tomorrow's court? Do some courtiers, a lucky Rosenkrantz, a fortunate Guildenstern, get to wait on the upper deck to be recognised, perhaps acknowledged. Do their brief moments on the memory maintain their form, assure them at least mortality? Until they are forgotten.
And then does their description on a virtual page earn them a few more precious minutes? Like the driver, an indistinct figure on the other side of a murky plastic pane who has a strange, slightly elongated head and little beady eyes, like a shoebill.
Oh, the driver. That's five people.
On the pod:
Sleepwalker - The Wallflowers
On the front page:
Go to Britain for benefits says EU (Daily Telegraph)
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